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| Use touch to work more naturally on a touch-enabled device |
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| Use your finger or pen to draw and annotate on a touch-enabled device |
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| Save diagrams locally in PNG or JPEG format with customization options for resolution, background color, transparency, and size |
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| Add hyperlinks to shapes that redirect to external sites, email addresses, files stored online, or pages within the same file |
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| View shapes in full fidelity online with intuitive pan and zoom functionality |
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| Navigate through commands with Tell Me integration |
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| Get an Office-like experience with high DPI and Dark Theme support |
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| Import DWG files, including enhanced file format support |
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| Edit shapes using Control Points, and easily apply themes to create modern diagrams |
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| Apply shape effect options, like shadow, bevel, and glow |
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| Accessibility, security, and compliance |
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| Get accessibility support with Narrator, Accessibility Checker, and high-contrast support |
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| Stay compatible with Windows 10 |
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| Help secure diagrams with Microsoft Information Rights Management (IRM) |
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| Support compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) |
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| Open files created in Visio 2000 and later versions with backward compatibility |
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| Install Visio temporarily on a Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 PC |
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| Intelligent diagramming |
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| Start with a simple Getting Started experience and powerful search |
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| Choose from a variety of starter diagrams and get up to speed quickly with contextual tips and tricks |
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| Enjoy familiar formatting features, such as auto align and distribute, and Smart Guides |
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| Add flyout shapes, insert and delete shapes with connection healing, and change shapes while preserving diagram layout and shape metadata |
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| Leverage the power of Shape Sheet to describe visual relationships between elements in your diagram |
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| Create a report of shape data that lists the text or data that is associated with your shapes |
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| Use Document Stencil to create a collection of shapes and quickly use them in your document |
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| Validate your structured diagrams against pre-defined rules and fix the issues identified |
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| Templates and shapes |
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| Use templates for basic flowcharts, cross-functional flowcharts (or swimlane diagrams), and block diagrams to create impactful stories |
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| Visualize your organizational structure using org chart templates and samples |
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| Brainstorm and organize your ideas visually using mind maps |
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| Get an overhead view of your office space, residential area, or public transportation route with templates for office layouts and directional maps |
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| Communicate project schedules, tasks, and progress with timeline diagrams, Gantt charts, and Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) charts |
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| Illustrate how devices and networks all work together with a variety of basic network templates, shapes, and connector tools |
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| Access more than 250,000 shapes through Visio's online content ecosystem |
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| Use containers to visually group your Visio shapes together and perform operations on the group |
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| Annotate your shapes with informative text by attaching callouts to shapes |
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| Visualize your systems and software using a rich repository of IT content including Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) and UML Diagrams |
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| Represent business processes graphically with a rich set of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) content |
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| Quickly create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes of your websites with website wireframes |
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| Bring your architecture designs to life with a rich library of floor plan templates and samples |
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| Create accurate, detailed business diagrams with templates for IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) diagrams, PivotDiagrams, Six Sigma, and value stream maps |
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| Model the behavior of systems and functions of a process with Specification and Description Language (SDL) and Integration Definition for Process Modeling (IDEF0) |
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| Create detailed engineering diagrams with templates for basic electrical and Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) |
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| Develop clear and professional design plans with templates for HVAC plans and plant layout |
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| Simplify your system design process with detailed network, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and rack diagrams |
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| Design a SharePoint workflow in Visio or import a workflow from SharePoint Designer for Visio to generate a diagram3 |
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| Collaboration and sharing |
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| Save diagrams to OneDrive for Business or SharePoint, and share and view diagrams from virtually anywhere online9 |
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| Comment on diagrams and shapes |
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| See where co-authors are working in the canvas with a simple presence indicator for files saved in the cloud |
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| Co-edit diagrams with two or more people simultaneously10 |
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| Connecting diagrams to data |
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| View diagrams connected to real-time data |
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| Create a database model from an existing database |
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| Generate org charts from data sources like Excel, Exchange, or Azure Active Directory6 |
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| Link diagram shapes to data from multiple sources, including Excel, SharePoint lists, and SQL Server6 |
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| Refresh data automatically, either on a defined schedule or manually |
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| Apply a rich set of data graphics, icons, and colors to visualize data |
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| Standards support |
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| Get support for various process standards, including BPMN 2.0, IEEE, and UML 2.5 |
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| Validate diagrams using built-in and extendable business rules |
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